Thank you so very much for all of your contributions to benefit our surrounding community. There are no words to adequately describe your generosity during the holiday season. Many benefitted from your willingness to give. Here are examples of the various efforts

Thank you to President Gutmann for hosting her Annual Holiday Party where over 300 toys and gifts were donated. These toys along with many others were donated to Councilwoman Blackwell's Annual Holiday Party for the Homeless.

Thank you to the following departments that brought joy to families during the holidays by 'adopting' them:

Special thanks to the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and the Penn Cardiovascular Institute coordinated by Carolyn Henry for the donation of gift cards which provided groceries for deserving families during the holidays.

Thanks to Helen Logan and the Office of General Counsel for providing additional gifts to insure that all the families referred to us were adopted.

Special thanks to Human Resources for their new Coat Drive coordinated by Syreeta Gary. Most of their donation benefitted the Grand Family Resource Center/Supportive Older Women's Network.

Special thanks to the Center for Bioethics' Robin Hartley for the additional donations for our deserving families in the Adopt A Family Program. The donation of gift cards purchased glasses for a father who had not had a new pair of glasses in over 9 years.

Thank you to the Facilities Department coordinated by Beth Schwartz for the additional donation to the Adopt A Family Program. We were able to purchase a car seat for a mother which allowed her to bring her newborn home from the hospital.

Thank you all for donating to the Annual Coat Drive. We provided coats to:

Thank you to the entire University community for donating over 700 gifts and toys.

Thank you to the Dropsite Volunteers who collected all the toys/gifts and made it possible for us to respond to requests for donations from our neighbors listed below:

Councilwoman Blackwell's Annual Holiday Party for the Homeless
The Potter's House Mission
Earth's Keepers, Inc
McMichael Morton School
Parents Against Drugs
Mill Creek Community Partnerships
New Faith Non Denominational House of Prayer
Church of New Hope and Faith
Glenn's referral

Additionally, the following pantries benefitted from the University's Annual Food Drive:

Please email me at sammapp@pobox.upenn.edu if you have any excess office supplies, furniture or equipment including stackable chairs, printers, desktop computers, cordless phones, fax machines, flash drives and DVD players suitable for donations to local nonprofits in the area.